"There
is not a single report in the scientific
literature that shows obstetricians to
be safer than midwives for low risk or
normal pregnancy and birth. So if you
are among the over 75 percent of all
women with a normal pregnancy, the
safest birth attendant for you is not a
doctor but a midwife."Dr. Merccola

"Unfortunately,
the role of obstetrics has never been to
help women give birth. There is a big
difference between the medical
discipline we call "obstetrics" and
something completely different, the art
of midwifery. If we want to find safe
alternatives to obstetrics, we must
rediscover midwifery. To rediscover
midwifery is the same as giving back
childbirth to women. And imagine the
future if surgical teams were at the
service of the midwives and the women
instead of controlling them."Michel Odent, MD